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Analyzing and refuting the anti-science movement, crank ideas, medical woo, charlatans, religious and political extremists...with goat.
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Why are incompetent mediocrities so apparently omnipresent in your social media? Because someone is paying lots of money to astroturf them as absolutely hard as possible
Someone has spent $330,000 promoting Ben Shapiro's personal Facebook page over the last year
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statistically, there are only Chinese and Indians, and British people don't exist. Phew!
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issuing correction on a previous post of mine, you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
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when you try to do a blood libel, and instead claim you're a horse
Yeah, biological women have nothing to fear from trans women. I mean they only want to extract our oestrogen now!!!
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but why would you ban half your userbase
BREAKING: Thinkspot - Jordan Peterson’s new social media website which bills itself as the place where “ideas live” and has a page long “Free Speech statement” and a commitment to only take down illegal speech appears to have just banned at least three users.
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"Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out."
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Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, because the people being forced into work to die don't have cars. The second wave will, of course, be blamed on them.
Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, despite the govt asking people to avoid public transport if possible when the
#coronavirus
lockdown eased.
Follow live as England gets back to work:
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"Ben Carson is such a great example of how the concept of raw intelligence doesn’t exist."
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@nytimes
question for
@williamjbroad
and
@globaldan
- sirs, could you please detail for us the editorial process that leads to both-sidesing drinking bleach? Thank you
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in other hilarious news, Vox Day lost all the money for his alt-right Confederate superheroes comic ... to a crypto scammer
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i mean everyone who leaves a magazine for health reasons gets his past archive scrubbed,
I want to address unfounded speculation about
@MrAndyNgo
's departure from
@Quillette
: Andy has been off work for
@Quillette
since July, after sustaining a traumatic brain injury. He is now moving onto bigger & better projects, & we wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
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we need a scientific explanation for why tweeting the arbitrary convention "Epstein" in reply to Prof Pinker gets an immediate block
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For all your YouTube inspirational needs!
Remember: no politics.
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@Zooophagous
@mikestabile
@Mastercard
.
@Mastercard
2019 annual meeting transcript: they directly refused to censor payments to neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
Mastercard consider sex workers in 2021 more objectionable than *literal Nazis*.
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Robert Webb left Strictly Come Dancing because he was afraid of being "cancelled" if he was caught on camera in the rehearsal room saying ... what in particular, Robert? What did you feel you could hardly restrain yourself from saying on a hot mic?
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that
@jack
is a bitcoiner explains quite a lot about Twitter
Instant buying (and selling, if you don’t want to hodl) of Bitcoin is now available to most Cash App customers. We support Bitcoin because we see it as a long-term path towards greater financial access for all. This is a small step.
We also made this!
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the inventor of Roko's Basilisk: "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
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it's never not amazing how "capitalist" conservatives are just utterly unable to comprehend capitalism - the idea of businesses seeking a broad mainstream audience - except as a Cultural Marxist conspiracy
Conservatives: Oh yeah? Well I'm going to just boycott your Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light and drink a Real Beer for Real Men™!
Beer companies:
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how libertarian economics funding works, with Robin Hanson
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"i replaced all instances of ‘witch’ in the malleus maleficarum with ‘sjw’" (eelcock)
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"Woke" was originally an American Black culture word meaning "aware of systemic racism". In its modern right-wing usage, it still means that.
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Centrists: "deplatforming fascists just makes them more powerful"
Fascist: "I failed to gain power because I was deplatformed"
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A warning: At the same time I am seeing a rise in anti-semitism on the right & the left I am seeing a lot more YouTube comments written by defenders of the Nazis. Communists have always had online defenders. But this Nazi apologism appears new... is anyone else seeing the same?
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"woke mind virus" is a billionaire phrase meaning "gives a hoot about a single other person"
any non-billionaire using the phrase is probably not very bright
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If any blithering idiot tries to tell you that sending incels to a sex worker is a good idea, shove this link down their throat so hard that they choke
A parole board sent a convicted wife-murderer to a sex worker *because* they knew he was a danger to women but wanted to make sure he got his "sexual needs" met. The guy murdered the 22-year-old sex worker.
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This tweet looks like it's from an SF tech crowd NIMBY. But Tandler is an SF tech crowd literal Nazi attempting to dogwhistle - the "vigilante" hangings in SF in the early 1920s were the KKK.
archive of original:
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The founder of SomethingAwful was such an asshole he got kicked off the site he founded (and it's much nicer now). He's trying to pivot to the right-wing grift circuit.
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@open_sketchbook
@CallumCant1
so are way more than makes any sense in the second category tho
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quite a lot of the twitter transphobes with GoodyXX etc names are sockpuppet accounts for middle aged men delighted to find an acceptable form of misogyny
this is why their timelines have no other topics of posting whatsoever: they're single-issue sockpuppet accounts
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(that tweet really is from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, btw)
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we've replaced gl*nn*r with a very small shell script,
a phalanx of catgirls taunting me while i defend my honor with a kendo stick
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when will those leftists address their phrenology, i mean craniometry, denialism
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Biden winning means the SJWs now control all video games. AAA games will be required to become walking simulators. Breasts have been reduced by five cup sizes.
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we can see the proposed Community Notes on this one and they're all transphobes seething
Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.
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@allgodsloveLGBT
just over here being fearless explorers of the boundaries of academic expression
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let's be absolutely clear: transphobes are scientifically incompetent, and anyone claiming that biology supports a rigid gender binary is a pseudoscientist
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"milk shaking rules because fascism and totalitarianism rely on the appearance of strength and its impossible to not look owned when covered in milkshake" - Mel Mudkiper
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thread on the religious attack on OnlyFans, and the backlash hitting the evangelicals and Mastercard
@Mastercard
said in a 2019 earnings call that they would not block payments to neo-Nazis, btw. Just sex workers in 2021, who they apparently think are worse than literal Nazis.
I know a lot of you feel hopeless right now, but I watching this unfold, I want to contextualize a few things about the battle ahead.
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Exodus Cry and NCOSE are scrambling: 95% of coverage about OnlyFans supports SWers. They didn't expect this, and now want to shift blame. 1/
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lol, Jesse Singal is going from transphobe to Just Asking Questions about climate change
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if you ever wondered why Jordan Peterson is so negative about law as a field of study - Canadian courts keep refusing him as an expert witness because he talks complete and transparent tosh. Hilarious and enlightening thread:
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thread: famed recording engineer Steve Albini on why debating cranks is an exhausting waste of your time, and it's intended as one, using a worked example from a few decades ago
A couple decades ago there was a christian panic about something the press started calling "backmasking," an outgrowth of the similarly absurd panic about subliminal messaging and advertising, about which I could also talk about for too long but will not now.
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be sure to take a note of the name: that's Sci-Hub. Find out the URLs for it, so you can make sure you never go there.
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Snopes' earliest example of this species of racism is from 1917
Reading Freakonomics is not a great way to learn econ but it is a great way to hear some racist urban legends.
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"I think a bigger reason New Atheism fizzled out was that the atheist stereotype went from being 'intelligent asshole' in 2007 to 'fedora-wearing neckbeard' in 2014. Lots of people want to be Dr House, nobody wants to be Comic Book Guy." (PMMeYourJerkyRecipes)
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Canadian Convoy and Jan 6th had literally the same donors
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RationalWiki doesn't bother with Conservapedia much any more, but they were the reason we originally started. This video gives you some idea why.
I've recently realized that most normal people don't know about the right-wing, ultra-Christian alternative to Wikipedia.
It's called Conservapedia and it exclusively deals in the most unhinged misinformation you've ever seen:
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"The Transsexual Empire" is one of the foundational texts of "feminist" transphobia that gave us TERFs as we know them. This thread examines its themes and the awful stew of bad ideas to be found within.
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there must be a better way to pick your nominee
The 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee has been bitten by a possibly rabid bat.
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@the_yote
@CallumCant1
rationalwiki remains entirely happy with the option it took in the great skeptical atheist movement schism
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our favourite* convicted felon with a string of well documented falsehoods behind him
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so it turns out no-platforming the far right works extremely well
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if you want to be blocked by
@sapinker
, tweet the words "epstein" and "pinker" in the same tweet
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In which
@arobertwebb
and
@RealDMitchell
try to cover up Robert Webb's previous extensively documented public transphobia, and can't get away with it because NPR isn't part of the UK media
Their publicity team asked if we would consider dropping the last segment and re-recording, if Webb and Mitchell agreed. This would be against NPR’s ethics code, so we said no.
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Rationalist shocked to discover that her reactionary friends are reactionaries
in Bayesian epistemology, if you're shocked by something others predicted long ago, you should update your priors
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Thing about
#Gamergate
is that their protests over their public image always show the reasons for their public image
http://t.co/iVHw67brvw
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How "debate" works for UAustin faculty: say somethig stupidly wrong, and when called thoroughly on it, try to make out it's a "debate" and you're not just utterly ignorant of your claimed subject area
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"red pilled" is far-right appropriation of trans culture
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frankly, it's amazing that the Washington Post called Scott Dilbert's rant "racist", and not "racially tinged" or "racially infused" or something
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not a parody account
Absolutely disgusting service at Schiphol airport. 55 minutes we have been stood in the immigration queue. This isn’t the Brexit I voted for.
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it is difficult to overstate the wildness of these dudes
Your cerebral spinal fluid is SEMEN. The brain floats in it. It provides protection and strength.
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"All that talk about liberal “snowflakes” is projection; if you really want to see people driven wild by tiny perceived slights and insults, you’ll generally find them on the right."
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KKK lynching meth poop lady who writes about San Francisco actually lives in New York, running a failing startup propped up by Sacks and Thiel
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UK government running out of ways to be performatively reactionary
Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit
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"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into an lmao
One of the sure signs that you're dealing with a malicious or careless narcissist online is their use of LMAO.
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it helps to keep in mind that Singal admitted in other tweets to being a KiwiFarms reader himself. Because of course he was.
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it's important to keep in mind that the human cost *to their own people* of turning the vaccine into a political point is horrifying
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@modernoverman
@FoldableHuman
@Quillette
Toby Young's tory erotica went into depth on skull shapes, so
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I used Ben Shapiro's argument strategies on my research paper for English Class. Why did I fail?
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trying to explain Roko's Basilisk commonly gets the reaction "no that just sounds stupid, you must be explaining it wrong" reaction, when actually it really is just stupid
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this is ... a pretty good application of crystals actually
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